A new six-part series
Dr Douglas Dorward , Senior Lecturer in Zoology at Monash University, Melbourne, a specialist in animal behaviour and ecology, acts as narrator, and Australian artist John Olsen sketches on location.
2:Across the Strait
Bass Strait islands (the Furneaux Group, and Glennie Island, which is still uninhabited) between Australia and Tasmania, where are found the Cape Barren goose, black swan, red-necked stint, chestnut teal, spur-winged plover and cormorant.
An Australian Broadcasting Commission production